Monday, November 23, 2009

Torch Song

For two days, this weekend, PEI became Fire Island as it welcomed theOlympic Torch...wait.

I waited outside my apartment for about an hour trying to get mycamera setup just right. It was getting chilly and the crowd was thinat best. My enthusiasm was already low when the Coca-Cola truck wentby and then the RBC Float. But then group of people dressed in whitejump suits turned the corner and slowly walked up to province house.It took everyone a few moments to realize it was the torch and theneveryone started to crowd around it as the torch bearers posed forpictures. Then they continued down great george street to a crappyparty. All the signs pointed to it being a very underwhelmingevent, and for the most part it was, but the torch itself and theenthusiasm of the people who carried it really made the whole thing areally cool experience.